Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), a former Air Force bomber pilot and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama announced his plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility:

Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a Concurrent Resolution on behalf of David Sneddon, a Brigham Young University student who went missing in China in 2004. The Resolution lays out the facts of Sneddon’s disappearance and asks the State Department and intelligence community to continue to investigate the case, specifically the possibility that the North Korean government may have abducted Sneddon.

Chairman of the Federal Lands Action Group, Rep. Chris Stewart, and Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, Rep. Rob Bishop, hosted their third forum in a series aimed at exploring best practices with regard to public land management and ownership.

Congressman Chris Stewart (R-Utah) introduced legislation to combat the Zika virus. The Zika Response and Safety Act gives flexibility to our federal agencies, allowing them to use funds allocated to fight the Ebola virus to also research and fight the Zika virus.

The Federal Land Action Group, led by Congressman Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), will hold their next forum on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 entitled “Improving Public Land Management Through More Local Control”.

Today, Rep. Chris Stewart addressed the Utah legislature at the Utah State Capital Building. To both the Utah House and Senate, he spoke of three areas that Congress needs to tackle: our country’s debt, economic growth and national security.

Today, the Obama administration announced that it is freezing all new coal production on public lands, leading to significantly increased energy costs, lost jobs and a decrease in energy production. Following the announcement, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) released the following statement: